feed bag
1. Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
2. put on the feed bag, Slang. to have a meal; eat: When his ...

feedback
/feed"bak'/, n.
1. Electronics.
a. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to ...

feedback inhibition
Suppression of the activity of an enzyme by a product of the sequence of reactions in which the enzyme is participating.
When the product accumulates in a cell beyond an optimal ...

feedback loop
Computers, Electronics.
the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input. Cf. closed loop.
[1980-85]
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feedbackinhibition
feedback inhibition
n.
A cellular control mechanism in which an enzyme that catalyzes the production of a particular substance in the cell is inhibited when that substance has ...

feedbackloop
feedback loop
n.
The section of a control system that allows for feedback and self-correction and that adjusts its operation according to differences between the actual output ...

feedbag
feed·bag (fēdʹbăg')
n.
A bag that fits over a horse's muzzle and holds feed. Also called nosebag.
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Feininger, Andreas
▪ American photographer
in full Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger
born December 27, 1906, Paris, France
died February 18, 1999, New York, New York, ...

Feininger, Andreas (Bernhard Lyonel)
born Dec. 27, 1906, Paris, Fr.
died Feb. 18, 1999, New York, N.Y., U.S.
French-born U.S. photographer and writer.
Son of painter Lyonel Feininger, he graduated from the Bauhaus ...

Feininger, Lyonel
▪ American artist
born July 17, 1871, New York City
died Jan. 13, 1956, New York City
American artist whose paintings and teaching activities at the Bauhaus ...

Feininger, Lyonel (Charles Adrian)
born July 17, 1871, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died Jan. 13, 1956, New York City
U.S.-born German painter.
He went to Germany in 1887 to study music but ended up studying painting ...

Feininger,Lyonel Charles Adrian
Fei·ning·er (fīʹnĭng-ər), Lyonel Charles Adrian. 1871-1956.
American-born artist who was influenced by cubism and the Bauhaus movement and developed a delicate geometric ...

felineleukemia virus
feline leukemia virus
n.
A retrovirus that primarily affects cats, is transmitted through saliva, and causes suppression of the immune system and anemia, leading to opportunistic ...

fellow feeling
1. sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
2. a sense of joint interest: to act out of fellow feeling to support one's country.
[1605-15]
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Fellow of the Royal Society
(abbr FRS)
the title of a member of the Royal Society. People are usually made members after doing some original scientific work:
Sir John Randall FRS
She was elected FRS in ...

fellow servant
(under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
[1525-35]
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fellow traveler
—fellow-traveling /fel'oh trav'euh ling, -trav"ling/, adj.
1. a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, esp. the Communist party, but is not an enrolled ...

fellow traveller
▪ Soviet literature
Russian Poputchik,
originally, a writer in the Soviet Union who was not against the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 but did not actively ...

fellow-servant rule
/fel"oh serr"veuhnt/
the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
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felony
/fel"euh nee/, n., pl. felonies. Law.
1. an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, esp. those commonly punished in the U.S. by ...

felony and misdemeanour
In Anglo-American law, two categories of criminal offense.
A crime is classed as one or the other according to its seriousness. In U.S. law, a felony is typically defined as a ...

felony murder
a killing treated as a murder because, though unintended, it occurred during the commission or attempted commission of a felony, as robbery.
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felsenmeer
felsenmeer [fel′zən mir΄]
n.
an area that is usually found on gentle slopes above the timberline, covered with a layer of weathered rocks and boulders
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femalecircumcision
female circumcision
n.
Partial or complete removal of the clitoris, prepuce, or labia of a girl or young woman, as practiced among certain cultures, especially in parts of Africa ...

Feminism Reimagined: The Third Wave
▪ 2008
Introduction
Laura Brunell The third wave of feminism emerged in the mid-1990s. Generation Xers, born in the 1960s and ‘70s in the developed world, came of age in ...